# Where is your school class ring? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 10, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097 "2014-09-10T18:02:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/1 "2014-09-10T18:02:57Z")
Do you still have your school class ring? IF not, what happened to it. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/2 "2014-09-10T18:08:14Z")
The summer after I graduated from high school, I cut down a large spruce tree for my parents and cut it into manageable pieces with a bow saw. Somehow my high school ring ended up in the pile of branches that resulted, and I never saw it again. I graduated from college when I was 53 and didn’t feel that a class ring was worth spending money on. ---
**Author:** ![2ManyTacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/3da27b/32.png) [@2ManyTacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ManyTacos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/3 "2014-09-10T18:15:30Z")
On my finger as I type this. I always wear it & rarely even take it off, and I don’t know why somebody would spend all the money on a ring and NOT wear it. That seems pointless to me. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/4 "2014-09-10T18:24:19Z")
My high school class ring is in my jewelry box. Haven’t worn it since freshman year in college, but I like having it as a memento. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/5 "2014-09-10T18:24:37Z")
Converted to beer money many moons ago in college. I didn’t care for HS at all. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/6 "2014-09-10T18:26:56Z")
Somewhere? Every once in a while I stumble across the little ring box and go, “Ah, high school.” and then I put it back and go on with my life. I never bothered to get a college class ring. They’re a bit big and bulky as far as jewelry goes. I’m much more of a simple band sort of guy. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/7 "2014-09-10T18:29:59Z")
I was too poor for such luxuries … and after the novelty wore off for my classmates, it really didn’t matter. Same story with my husband. I think we told our children they could save up to pay for their own rings, and neither one thought it was important enough. No class bling for us Beatas. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/8 "2014-09-10T18:33:54Z")
I gave my high school ring to a girl and never got it back after breaking up. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/9 "2014-09-10T18:34:19Z")
I never had one. But if yours is missing you may have left it at the bowling alley. Someone showed me a box full of those things at the lanes when I was a teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/10 "2014-09-10T18:39:54Z")
I voted ‘I still have it, but I don’t wear it’. I could have voted ‘I have no idea what happened to it’, but I _do_ have an idea. It’s in a box somewhere. Actually, it may be in a drawer in a small chest in the storage unit. But a cardboard box in side a larger box is just as likely. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/11 "2014-09-10T18:48:13Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Do you still have your school class ring? IF not, what happened to it. It was stolen by a girl I slept with during my freshman year of college. I didn’t care because (1) I hadn’t wanted a class ring in the first place but was pressured to get one by my father; (B) the ring my father forced on me was not the ring I would have chosen, but one HE liked; (Ɣ) I had just had sex … (iv) with a girl who said outright that she liked me BECAUSE I WAS AN ASSHOLE. It was the perfect storm for not giving a fuck. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/12 "2014-09-10T18:49:19Z")
I don’t remember even being given the opportunity to buy a class ring in high school. As for college, I figured, “Why bother?” (In fact, I didn’t pick up my college diploma until something like four years after the fact - and the only reason I did was, I went to the university’s administration building to ask whether my degree was a BS or a BA (Computer Science, Cal-Berkeley - I was under the impression that it was a BA (and it is), but I kept getting the school’s engineering department magazine for some reason), and while I was there, the clerk noticed that I had graduated less than five years before then, which is how long they keep diplomas, and asked me if I wanted mine.) ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/13 "2014-09-10T19:08:37Z")
My high school class ring is in the sock drawer of my dresser. I haven’t worn it since college, except for the periods during which it was in the possession of a couple different girls I was dating/sleeping with. I look at it now as a symbol of more of my parents’ money wasted on something that seemed important to me at the time which I soon realized I didn’t care about. I never bothered to get a college ring; I’m not really a jewelry guy. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/14 "2014-09-10T19:18:18Z")
My HS class ring fell down the bathroom sink drain years ago. I didn’t try very hard to get it back. Never had a college ring. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/15 "2014-09-10T19:20:08Z")
In a ring box in my nightstand ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/16 "2014-09-10T19:27:16Z")
I lost mine in 1972 only a few weeks after receiving it. I was going to remove some car parts at a junk yard and put the ring in the pocket of my jeans so that it wouldn’t get scratched up. Later when I reached into the pocket for the ring, it was missing. No holes in the pocket either. I went back to the junk yard, but didn’t find it. Ironically I lost my original wedding ring the same way, but it was while working on a clothes dryer at home. I never did find that ring either. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/17 "2014-09-10T19:36:35Z")
We didn’t do those in my school. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/18 "2014-09-10T19:48:31Z")
I voted have it/don’t wear it, but I do wear it once in a while. My grandparents bought me a high school ring because they’d bought my sister one. What they did for one grandchild they did for all. Fair is fair. We got our rings - this is high school, I didn’t get a college ring - at the end of sophomore year. I wore mine regularly until I lost it late in senior year. The good news is that I had lost it in the art room, and the teacher recognized it as mine and got it back to me. I wore it for a while after that and then parked it in a corner of my jewelry box. I kind of thought that everyone who’d bought one would have more or less the same answer. I have my grandmother’s, my great-aunt’s, and now my mom’s high school class rings because after they stopped wearing them they put them in the bottom of their jewelry boxes and left them there. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/19 "2014-09-10T19:48:52Z")
I never bought a high school ring - I assume But MIT rings tend to get worn forever, in my experience. Most of the grads I meet have one and wear one. I think the reason is that they are distinctive. The beaver isn’t like the common gem. I was lucky to get mine when gold was $35 an ounce - today they are real expensive and I know a new grad with a silver version. So I’m the second still wearing it answer. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097/20 "2014-09-10T19:53:02Z")
Best I can figure my HS ring was lost in a small do-it-yourself carwash. Went back to look but couldn’t find it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-school-class-ring/698097.md?page=2)